Michelle Wilson is an experienced senior international development professional with 18 years’ experience in Sub Saharan Africa and Asia. She spent 7 years living and working in Uganda, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Sierra Leone and has since supported projects in Sub Saharan Africa, India and Viet Nam. Her passion and experience is developing inclusive value chains across a range of sectors including agriculture, agroforestry and currently, waste management.
She is currently Director of Programmes at WasteAid and oversees WasteAid’s Uganda Circular Textiles Project (funded by the United Kingdom Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office through the Sustainable Manufacturing and Environmental Pollution Programme (SMEP)), which is based on Kampala Uganda. Working with local textile and vocational training partners. the aim of the project is to support the development of alternative value chains for secondary textiles that otherwise end up at landfill.
